Manager, Data Analytics - Engineering & Platform

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Mississauga, ON

Manager, Data Analytics - Engineering & Platform role focused on managing GCP/BigQuery infrastructure, data platform design, optimization, and governance. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, reliability, and performance, defining data standards, implementing best practices for data modeling and pipeline development, and supporting self-service reporting. Requires expertise in BigQuery architecture, cost optimization, and data governance principles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and manage our GCP/BigQuery infrastructure, serving as the central point of accountability for all reporting and consumption datasets across the organization.
  2. Design, optimize, and govern our data platform to ensure high-quality, reliable, and performant data assets are available to stakeholders.
  3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data standards, implement best practices for data modeling and pipeline development, and drive continuous improvement in how we surface insights to the business.
  4. Identify gaps in reporting infrastructure, implement best practices, and introduce automation.
  5. Train and support other departments in self-service reporting and maintaining vendor relationships for analytics tools.

Skills

Required

  • GCP and BigQuery architecture expertise
  • Data modeling (dimensional and consumption-layer design)
  • ETL/ELT pipeline development
  • SQL and query performance optimization
  • Cost optimization and resource management in BigQuery
  • Cloud-native data engineering best practices